polynox

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by polynox 1y ago
"In as much detail as possible, describe what is happening when I enter https://google.com into the browser and hit enter"
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by polynox 1y ago
The Libor scandal is not an issue?
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by polynox 1y ago
I have come back from week long international trips, having arrived by plane on Monday or Tuesday, and by Thursday someone will ask me what I did last weekend, and I'll draw a blank, and the social pressure of not having an answer and
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by polynox 2y ago
That is the goal of Vanilla OS! https://vanillaos.org/
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by polynox 2y ago
I agree and you are correct that concept of legibility was central, however going from the text now I believe that James takes specific issue with joint combination of both the exercise of state authority as well as the blindness that is im
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by polynox 2y ago
It is not the "dispassionate dividing of the world into rigid categories" necessary in order to implement software that is morally or ethically problematic, it is the imposition of those rigid categories upon society at large, per
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by polynox 3y ago
I was referring to the statute, in that you shall capitalize R&D. That's not just the plain language of the statute [1], or how the Congress who passed it interpreted it [2], it's the plain language as the IRS describes it i
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by polynox 3y ago
Whether you can shop around to find someone who can tell you what you want to hear is unrelated to the mixed fact and law question of whether it is a defensible position that software development salaries must be capitalized.
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by polynox 3y ago
It’s a cash flow issue, not a tax rate issue.
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by polynox 3y ago
Shall means shall, as in it’s mandatory.
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by polynox 3y ago
I would not complain about a free open source tool because they don’t do a good job of marketing it.
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by polynox 3y ago
Security teams don't bear the costs of reduced productivity from saying no, but bear all the blame if they make a wrong decision to approve something. So they're heavily incentivized to say no. Like many principal-agent problems,
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by polynox 4y ago
I'm not sure what your argument is exactly. They haven't transferred the depositors' balances to new banks, they've simply issued them IOUs (receivership certificates). From what is known about the balance sheet of SVB,
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S.314 – Createjobs Act(congress.gov)
1 points by polynox 4y ago|1 comments
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by polynox 4y ago
A previous thread [1] discussed Section 174 (mandatory capitalization of R&D expenses). An introduced bill does retroactively reverse it (See (d) Effective Date). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627712
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by polynox 4y ago
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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by polynox 4y ago
That's fair. A car that is in a collision is always at best as good as a car that has not been in a collision, whereas that's not the case with an employee who was terminated. I was trying to get at where you don't need to tr
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by polynox 4y ago
It can both be true that most of the people who were laid off were done for "performance reasons" and also that it's not rational to reject a candidate because of a "red flag" like being laid off, at least if you ar
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by polynox 4y ago
What a disgusting but revealing story. By saying "being laid off is a red flag" they are loudly signaling that actually they have no way of measuring interview performance and are just trusting the former employer's judgement
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by polynox 4y ago
So you would refuse to fund Google (Larry and Sergei being PhD students at Stanford at the time) because they "[have] no business experience"?
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by polynox 4y ago
I think what makes your definition confusing or misleading is the concept of dual sovereignty. Under the concept of dual sovereignty in a federal system (such as the United States, Russia, Canada, or India), conduct can be legal or illegal
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by polynox 4y ago
I'm just citing it for the context of the argument both for and against appeal to authority being fallacious and irrational, not that Wikipedia is the final arbiter of what's rational or not. It's more to say that my position
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by polynox 4y ago
I was not aware of abduction before today, thank you! I think we may agree in practice if not in theory. I did have the Hume-an problem of induction explicitly on my mind. It would be quite fair to say my epistemology is quite conservative.
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by polynox 4y ago
I trust that when I drive over a bridge it won't collapse. But I cannot say I know that the bridge won't collapse. Knowledge is a true and justified belief. But trust is not a justification - quite the opposite. If you had a j
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by polynox 4y ago
It’s an obvious risk that the issuer of a perpetual license goes out of business.
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by polynox 4y ago
You are probably overthinking this. As much as the deregulatory agenda is ascendant, the FCC does have authority to regulate … wireless carriers and interstate commerce. In particular, 47 USC 618(a)(6) provides an explicit right of mandamus
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by polynox 4y ago
For what it's worth I agree highly with this perspective. I'd invite you to be on my gang of post-apocalyptic systems engineers [1]. [1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
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by polynox 4y ago
Caching adds leverage and therefore risk. That risk, in particular the "thundering herd problem", is a special case of reducing the system from stable to meta-stable. People think it's stable but it's actually meta-stabl
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by polynox 4y ago
Surprised not to see mention of some of the massive LAN parties that were/are combined with tournaments. Some larger on the tournament side (DreamHack) and some larger on the party side (LPANE Nor'Easter). https://hotha
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by polynox 4y ago
Why would you take U.S. population rather than world population?

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